On the basis of portraits of well-to-do citizens, card-playing men and reading women, daily life and the residents of 17th-century Amsterdam are mapped. The eighteen works by Rembrandt from The Leiden Collection are the common thread of the exhibition.
‘Wemwrandt’
The collection is in the hands of the French-American businessman and collector Thomas Kaplan. “My love for Rembrandt originated in the Metropolitan Museum in New York when I was six years old,” he recalls today in the H’art Museum.
He didn’t have to know anything about modern art. “When my mother took me to the Museum of Modern Art and I saw a white canvas with a red line for the first time, I crossed my arms and shook my head. Because I missed two front teeth, I slipped:” Take me back to the wemwrandt. “